Science.gov Survey
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Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information for the Science.gov Alliance

 
Science.gov is a collaboration of 13 agencies within the federal government. The content in Science.gov is selected by the participating agencies. This online survey is provided for approximately 45 days, from August 2012 to October 2012, to gain a better understanding of Science.gov usage. Survey participation is strictly voluntary and personal identifiable information will not be collected. Completing the survey will take approximately 4 minutes.

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Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 4 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to Office of the Chief Information Officer, Records Management Division, IM-23, Paperwork Reduction Project (1910-5160), U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC, 20585-1290; and to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), OIRA, Paperwork Reduction Project (1910-5160), Washington, DC 20503.

Thank you for your time!
The Science.gov Team


1. How did you find Science.gov?
2. Science.gov automatically relevancy ranks results. Does the relevancy ranking appear reasonable given your search, e.g. was the first result more relevant than the fifth or sixth?
3. When you are presented with search results do you prefer they be listed in?
4. When you open a search result on Science.gov you are actually taken to the external agency site which hosts the information. After that do you most often :
5. On the search results page Science.gov provides a piece of information from Wikipedia about your query term. Do you find the Wikipedia information helpful?
6. Did you encounter a spellchecker if your search term was misspelled? If so how did it compare to other spellcheckers?
7. Science.gov has an Alerts feature. Select the best response for your Science.gov Alerts experience.
8. What was your awareness of the approximately 50 databases searchable on Science.gov prior to using Science.gov? If you need a reference please see http://www.science.gov/searchdbs.html.
9. Select the role which best describes your use of Science.gov:
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